Force Biffo

[laura]

Now its just accusations and bringing up crap from the past. Why not wait a few hours and find out what Rugby WA actually has to say. Fair chance there may be more truth in that than all the news stations contradicting and second guessing themselves!!

[fulvio sammut]

What else would you expect at a Christmas party, TOCC? Apple sauce? Party pies and sausage rolls won't quite taste the same...

[fulvio sammut]

You know, I could almost (almost) sympathise with Henjak at that Christmas party.

I know a lot of guys from every club in the local competition who would have been honoured and deserving of being invited to that party, funded at their clubs' expense.

I would have been tempted to deal with a freeloader in the same way.

[TOCC]

What else would you expect at a Christmas party, TOCC? Apple sauce? Party pies and sausage rolls won't quite taste the same...

it doesnt take much self-control to steer away from confrontations..

If Henjak doesnt have the maturity level to do this, then his contract should be torn up, im willing to wait and see if all this is false, but you have to be realistic and accept that some players like Henjak are just bad news, he is constantly in the press for mainly negative issues.

[BLR]

If Henjak doesnt have the maturity level to do this, then his contract should be torn up, im willing to wait and see if all this is false, but you have to be realistic and accept that some players like Henjak are just bad news, he is constantly in the press for mainly negative issues.

Not really, it just seems so because SMH constantly drags up issues which are years old eg. the 2004 assault....

[TOCC]

Well unfortunately in the age of professionalism, corporate image is everything, i cringe to think about how much damage in terms of sponsorship and corporate backing that the quokka fiasco and the henjak incident's(notice the plural) have caused to the Force and Australian Rugby in general over the last few years.

[Flamethrower]

A couple of headline grabbers
I never heard about the second one before.

It's a Cat fight as Johnson and Ling come to blows - realfooty.com.au

New Eagles captain at forefront of hardline approach | Herald Sun

[Jehna]

The late news on 10 seem to be in no doubt that it was Henjak . They showed footage of them trying to talk to him at training today but he was tight lipped. Looks like the plan right now is to let whoever it was still go...

[James]

I was talking with Seamus O'Finegan down at Rosie O'Grady's and he seemed to think Sare had stolen Henjak's lucky charms. He then went on to eat a beer coster and ask why he wasn't in Kansas anymore.

[travelling_gerry]

FORMER Australia half-back Matt Henjak's career is hanging by a thread after an incident at a Fremantle hotel on Sunday that left his teammate Haig Sare with a broken jaw.

Sare is understood to have undergone surgery in a Perth hospital on Monday night to wire his jaw back together after a drinking session involving half a dozen Force players degenerated into pushing and shoving, and from there into a violent altercation between Sare and Henjak.

One source told The Australian that while Sare ended up in hospital, Henjak was so badly beaten "he looked like the Elephant Man".

The ugly episode is the latest in a long list of incidents involving Henjak who in 2005 became the first player since 1966 to be sent home in disgrace from a Wallabies tour after getting involved in an incident in a Cape Town nightclub.

It is understood there have been a number of other disciplinary matters involving Henjak during his two years in Perth.

Force was in crisis Monday night as officials wrestled with the problem of whether or not to allow the 26-year-old to board the plane today (Tuesday) for the team's three-match Super 14 tour of South Africa, opening with the match against last year's finalists, the Sharks, in Durban on Friday.

It is believed some officials were arguing that natural justice demanded that Henjak be allowed to tour until all the details of the incident were known.

Bolstering that argument is the fact that Henjak is the only experienced half-back in the touring party, unless Matt Giteau is drafted as the new No9, which would throw into chaos plans to have him direct operations from five-eighth.

Sources have revealed that coach John Mitchell's initial reaction on learning of the incident was to tear up Henjak's contract and expel him from the team, but he then realised that this would penalise the entire side.

Yet even if Henjak is given leave to tour and face a judiciary hearing on his return, all indications are his contract will not be renewed when it expires at the end of the season.

Australian Rugby Union chief executive John O'Neill, who made his views on player discipline known right from the moment he suspended and fined Lote Tuqiri last year following an alcohol-related incident in Brisbane, was advised of the altercation on Monday night by Force acting chief executive Mitch Hardy.

"We have asked them to continue to review the situation and report back to us in the morning," O'Neill said. "Ultimately it's their call."

While the ARU might have no direct authority to get involved, O'Neill must be concerned by the long litany of indiscipline at Force.

Late last year Force players Scott Fava and Richard Brown were fined $11,000 and $5000 respectively for mistreating quokkas on a team bonding trip to Rottnest Island.

Brawling Henjak faces sack | The Australian

[Thequeerone]

It's going to be a long day while we figure out how much damage has been done to he Force's chances of getting to the finals ?

Q1: Will Henjak be on the plane ?
Q2: Is Stannard ready ?
Q3: How long will it take Haig to recover - the poor man won't be able to eat for at least 6 weeks - so he won't be match fit for a while longer than that - his season must be over ?
Q4: How upset will the rest of the team (on and off the pitch) be ? Does everyone have to tiptoe around Jak in case he gets upset - could make for a long 3 weeks in that case

The rest is just titillation - was Haig the intended recipient of the punch ? What is Jaks contract worth now ? What upset him that much - was it justified?

[travelling_gerry]

on reflection and seeing what is in this article...maybe we should all wait to see what the investigation brings out...

It may well be Haig who copped the last punch that broke his jaw (then then again he may not have and fought on) but it certainly doesnt sound like a "one punch fight".

The biggie will be "Who threw the first punch?"

[jargan83]

I know we're waiting for details to emerge over this latest incident, but was Henjak directly involved in the quokka throwing incident? I was listening to the radio on the way to work this morning and Ryan Campbell did his hourly sport segment to no surprise he brought up the problems in land and said "Henjak's been a bad boy in the past, chucked a couple of quokkas around last year"

[benny]

today's west australian photos look like a picture what could start the story, with bruising and scratching !!

[benny]

great to see the media knows what there talking about, maybe all the media has gone to campbells head !! Dozzy F***

probably trying to take the WCE (wet toast seagulls) out of the spotlight for doing everything wrong, might as well drag another team thru the "Bad media" spotlight ... (my views on recent different stories from all WA media personalities)